Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favors.

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being.

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.